The Routes Quartet - Windrose - Album Artwork

I'm not going to lie about this project, it was a bit of struggle for me creatively. I really went round the houses and tried lots and lots of different concepts and variations on those concepts. If you scroll down you'll see two of them. I even went to the length of printing maps out that represented where each member of the band came from and fashioned them into origami roses. Sometimes in creative work you just have to try an idea to see if it will work, there really is no shortcut. When you have spent a lot of time crafting various different solution but your gut just tells you that they are just not quite right you just have to be honest with yourself and let them go without prejudice.In the end I decided that simplification was the key (as it so often is) and went for a motif that was less influence by the 'Windrose (FYI A Windrose it the little compass on old style maps). And decided to create something on a more modern contemporary vibe. Using the popular / modern tones of a muted sunset as a background, this also informed the look of the main photograph. I got to go and stay with the band in Drimnin - Morvern, where they were recording in the chapel and took loads of landscape photos one of which made it onto the inside page on the cover.The album is really superb. The band have achieved a great sound in a really beautiful acoustic space. The recording and mixing has been expertly carried out by Keir Long, that man really has ears of gold and the technical chops to really make everything sing. Patsy Reid also did a great job on the production really pushing the band to achieve their best and it was pretty fearsome to witness such an accomplished professional in action.You can get the album from bandcamp here... https://theroutesquartet.bandcamp.com/album/windroseI thoroughly recommend it really is something fresh and special and it's heartening to hear an acoustic album recorded in a space that sounds so beautifully natural.